Rag doll.



doll at bestl presents an nnpleasing appearstantially'outline the figure and into which New York, have invented certain new and. i

' thenfalong; the edgeA nntil'the seam is closed I cloth do not exactly' match that. is not easily- CHARLES SGKMAN, 0F BROKLYN, NEW YORK.

RAG DOLL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan, 31, 1911'.

Application filed January 16, 1909.. SeriaINo. 472,621.

yBe it known that I, CHARLES SAGKMAN,

a citizen of vthe UnitedStates, residing in Brooklyn, county of Kings, andy State ofi To all whom it may concern:

useful lniproi'ements in Dolls; and l. 'do hereby declare the followingl to bea full, clear, and exact description of the inrention, such as will jenable others skilled in the art to which it appertains 4to make and use the sarnc.

lt is customary in the manufacture of rag`l dolls, that' is, dolls made of two or more pieces of cloth served together at their edges' and stalled, .today the pieces of cloth together. 'with their reverse faces ont and senv almost entirely around the outline, leaning sntlicient openingI so thatrthe article may be turned inside out to expose the front faces oi? the cloth, and 'then to stall2 the doll through the opening, which is then sewed up'. It is customary to select for the openine the least 4conspicuous part. of the doll and to mak-e the openingas small as possible, and to use as innch care as may be in closingthe opening so as to make-it inconspicuons. It is, however, almost impossible to match the design on the two pieces of cloth When they are thus sewn together With their reverse face's'out and the completed ance alongfthe seam. on account of the bad matching and frequentlyfbecause -the stitchingr shows to some extent. 4 i

The object of the present invention is'to make a doll of this character in'an .inexpensiyeway and at the same time oneiyhieh has` a better appearance than the ordinariv rag doll'.` "To this end I make along; the seam a'detining line of such color as to subthe patterns on the scparatepieccs may be said to merge. That is to say, I iindjhat when such a deliningline is-made along the seam the eye is'so attracted by that line that even. if the patterns on thetivo pieces oi detoetedby the observer and the appearance oft the doll is greatly improved'.` "am By Way ot' illusiratiouof my intention, lV hare shownjn the accompanying drawings -1' along` the seam.

Figure 1 is a ront'elevation; Fig. 2 is side elevation; and Fig. 3 is a detail View on a larger scale showing more clear-lj7 the defining line.

The doll of Figs. l. and Q, isniade up cfa front piece of cloth 1 and a back piece Q, the two pieces havingl printed upon them an appropriate `design to indicate a dressed 'doll In the particular construction illus# tratved in these figures. instead ot reversing the pieces, sewingl them together and then turning then'1 ii1sid e out, l sew along the edge of the 4.entire seam a braid 3 of distinct-ive color, a-nd it will be observed that this braid forms a line of a single color following the outline of the doll and haring` substantially thc effect of a -'aming to emphasize the color-s and features oi' the de sign. ln orderthat a substantial training effect vof this` kind may be produced. the eolered. line or band .is caused to contrast iu color with the body of the doll. and it is, ot course, of sufficient Width to create such an effect. At Vthe saine time. by reason of thc continuity of the `color of the defining' line any failure of the two parts of the design to match is very much less apparent. .In tact., I4 find in practice that the failure to one design of doll having the deiningl-ine` match may be considerable Without being!- y' se'ryeras is the failure tomatch of the de sig-n vin an ordinary rag doll. In the'form shown in the drawings. the braid is held in place alongthe seam by an orersen'u stitch and the, color ot the thread used for this stitch maybe the same as the color ot' the cord or it may contrast therewith' to a 'l'oi-l ln F111'. f3 the an ornamental appearance. K cord shown at 3 and the thread forming the jorersenfn stitch at 4..

lVhile I hare shown a cord for the purpose of tin-ming the defining'4 line. and

.irhile l rind that thisfan'sn'ers the. purpose admirably. it is also l'mssible to use other arrangen-ients. as. torexauiple. a line ol' uniform color may he printed alone' the edn-e wl' each piero of rlothso as lo form the delining. line at ille seam, m' 4 ||vl1 :i line may hil lI'ninteri:Hong the'edge of one piece of cloth l only stitch, und a heavy enough thread, to ineke It is even possible, by usingn proper the sewing thread itself, when an oversewn stitch .is 'used, constitute the defining line.

' A rag' doll having 'an outer covering' formed of pieces of cloth colored to present cemplemental designs or pit-tterns which lin conjnnetonmake np the design' of the doll,

said pieces'beng' sewed together along the meeting'edges and-having :t defining color line interrupting the design along the seam.

In testimony whereof I nHiX my signature,

in presence of twowitnesses. 

